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Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The effects of thunderstorms and lightning discharges on the Earth's electric field' by T W Wormell

Reference number: RR/65/284

Date: October 1938

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Sectional committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in Philosophical Transactions. The author should consider mentioneing McKendrick as the originator of the capillary electrometer. One of the sections could be omitted.

[Published in Philosophical Transactions A, 1939].

Endorsed on verso as received 25 October 1938.

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October 1938
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Edward Victor Appleton, Referee's report by Edward Victor Appleton, on a paper 'The effects of thunderstorms and lightning discharges on the Earth's electric field' by T W Wormell, October 1938, RR/65/284, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_65_284/referees-report-by-edward-victor-appleton-on-a-paper-the-effects-of-thunderstorms-and-lightning-discharges-on-the-earths-electric-field-by-t-w-wormell, accessed on 19 April 2025

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